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ISMB/ECCB 2025: 33rd Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the 24th European Conference on Computational Biology - ISMB/ECCB 2025

ACC Liverpool

Liverpool, UK, July 20-24, 2025

Conference website	https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/home
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ismbeccb2025

The annual international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is the flagship meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The 2025 meeting is the 33rd ISMB conference, which has grown to become the world's largest bioinformatics and computational biology conference. Joining forces with the European Conference on Computational Biology (the 24th Annual Conference), ISMB/ECCB 2025 will be the year's most important computational biology event!

The international meeting will be held in-person at the ACC Liverpool—a leading conference and event venue in the UK—and virtually through ISCB's Nucleus platform.

The principal focus of the joint ISMB/ECCB conference is on the development and application of advanced computational methods to address biological problems, and brings together researchers from computer science, bioinformatics, computational biology, molecular biology, mathematics, statistics, and related fields. The conference provides a multidisciplinary platform for sharing the latest advancements in bioinformatics and computational biology, fostering new dialogues and perspectives to shape the future of the field.

In addition, with the ever-increasing interest in ISCB’s Communities of Special Interest (COSIs), conference organization actively involves COSIs in program development to help highlight emerging research areas and to deliver an exceptional and research-driven event!

In-person participants will have the opportunity to enjoy:

in-person training workshops and tutorials
the Student Council Symposium
more than 500 expected scientific talks
exclusive networking events
the ability to make new connections when utilizing the attendee profile and match maker features within the virtual platform
the option to schedule one-on-one time with speakers, poster presenters, exhibitors, and sponsors to learn more about their work, products, or services
exclusive access to the ISMB/ECCB 2025 on-demand repository of talks and poster presentations to catch up on any missed sessions

Virtual participants can enjoy:

livestream and on-demand access to sessions and tutorials, benefiting attendees from all time zones
a live question and answer feature to engage with the speaker during sessions
the live chat feature to engage with other participants within virtual session rooms
the ability to make new connections when utilizing the attendee profile and match maker features within the virtual platform
exclusive access to the ISMB/ECCB 2025 on-demand repository of talks and poster presentations to catch up on any missed sessions

ISMB/ECCB 2025 bolsters its reputation as the leading conference in the field, with the strongest scientific and technical program that showcases the best international developments in bioinformatics and computational biology.

Get ready to join us July 20–24 in Liverpool, United Kingdom!

Submission Guidelines

Proceedings

ISMB/ECCB 2025 invites submissions of full papers (not abstracts) consisting of new, unpublished work, reporting theoretical, computational, and statistical advances in computational biology and its intersections with other fields. Please review the key dates here: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/key-dates

Submissions are encouraged to report on advances in algorithm development and optimization, data structures, data visualization, artificial intelligence/machine learning, text mining, statistical inference, database and ontology development, image analysis, citizen and open science, etc. to analyze all types of biological data.

While we encourage submissions in new and emerging areas, we expect that the majority of submissions addressing topical biological domains will fall into one of the areas below. Please note during the EasyChair submission process you will: 1) select your "Area" (list below) and 2) select one or more of the Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) best suited for the presentation of your research from within the area (learn more about COSIs here).

For a variety of reasons, ISCB strongly prefers that scientific research accepted for oral presentation be presented in-person at the conference venue. We understand that some presenters will have valid reasons to avoid in-person attendance. ISCB will grant remote presentation options for reasons associated with maternity/paternity leave, care for a family member, personal/medical disability, sickness, financial hardship, or potential visa problems. If your research is accepted for oral presentation and you are unable to present in person, ISCB requires notification at the time of acceptance and no later than May 14, 2025. You will be asked during your confirmation of participation to confirm your in-person participation. If unable to participate you will need to request a waiver by writing presentationwaiver@iscb.org

Any pre-approved virtual presenters will be required to provide a pre-recorded talk for the virtual platform library in advance of the conference as a precaution due to possible technical issues.

ISMB/ECCB 2025 follows the ISCB policy for acceptable use of large language models (https://www.iscb.org/iscb-policy-statements/iscb-policy-for-acceptable-use-of-large-language-models)

Abstracts

We invite abstracts for research that is topical to bioinformatics and computational biology, which is in progress (unpublished, formerly Late-Breaking Research) or previously published within the last 18 months (previously Highlights Track) for consideration for oral and/or poster presentation. Please review the key dates here: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/key-dates

Your abstract should be submitted to the Communities of Special Interest (COSI) or Open Session Track that most accurately reflects the area of the work. (You will have the option to identify two other tracks that may also be suited to your research area during your submission). You can learn more about COSIs here.

Talks and posters are organized according to scientific topics which are covered by the COSIs and open sessions listed and described below. Please note, abstracts are not limited to COSI and open session topics and if the topic of your submission falls outside the listed COSIs you can choose the "General Computational Biology" area. Your abstract should convey a scientific result and should not be an advertisement for any commercial software package.

Multiple presentations: The same talk is not permitted to be given more than once as an oral presentation at ISMB. Research may be presented as both a talk and a poster if and only if it is submitted as two individual submissions with TWO different presenters. Having the same person deliver two (or more) different talks is NOT PERMITTED on the same topic. This allows for many people from one lab to present the work of the lab. A presenting author may present NO MORE THAN ONE talk or poster on the same topic.

For a variety of reasons, ISCB strongly prefers that scientific research accepted for oral presentation be presented in-person at the conference venue. We understand that some presenters will have valid reasons to avoid in-person attendance. ISCB will grant remote presentation options for reasons associated with maternity/paternity leave, care for a family member, personal/medical disability, sickness, financial hardship, or potential visa problems. If your research is accepted for oral presentation and you are unable to present in person, ISCB requires notification at the time of acceptance and no later than May 15, 2024. If unable to participate in person you will need to request a waiver by writing presentationwaiver@iscb.orgAny pre-approved virtual presenters will be required to provide a pre-recorded talk for the virtual platform library in advance of the conference as a precaution due to possible technical issues.

List of Proceedings and Abstract Areas

Proceedings Areas

Bioinformatics Education and Citizen Science
Bioinformatics of Microbes and Microbiomes
Biomedical Informatics
Equity and Diversity in Computational Biology Research
Evolutionary, Comparative and Population Genomics
Genome Sequence Analysis
Macromolecular Sequence, Structure, and Function
Privacy and Security for Computational Biology
Regulatory and Functional Genomics
Systems Biology and Networks
General Computational Biology*

*You are encouraged to submit to one of the other 10 thematic areas. If you feel your contribution is at the intersection of many fields, please pick one. If you still want to submit to this area, you will be asked to explain why. Please note that the submissions in this area and others are likely to be moved, subject to chairs’ considerations.

Abstract Talk and Poster Areas

Committees

Program Committee

Carole Goble - University of Manchester - United Kingdom
João Carlos Setubal - University of São Paulo - Brazil
Janet M Thornton - EBI/EMBL - United Kingdom

Organizing Committee

Karsten Borgwardt - Proceedings Chair, Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry - Germany
Carole Goble - Conference Chair, University of Manchester - United Kingdom
Bel Hanson - ISCB Director, Operations and Programs - United States
Janet Kelso - ISCB Treasurer and ISCB Conferences Advisory Council Chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology - Germany
Diane E. Kovats - ISCB Chief Executive Officer - United States
Tijana Milenkovic - Proceedings Chair, University of Notre Dame - United States
João Carlos Setubal - Conference Chair, University of São Paulo - Brazil
Janet M Thornton - Honorary Conference Chair, EBI/EMBL - United Kingdom
Predrag Radivojac - ISCB President, Professor Northeastern University - United States
Tandy Warnow - University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne - United States

Publication

ISMB/ECCB 2025 proceedings will be published in Bioinformatics by Oxford University Press.

Venue

The conference will take place in the ACC Liverpool

King's Dock, Port of Liverpool, Kings Dock St

Liverpool L3 4FP, UK

https://www.accliverpool.com

Contact

All questions should be emailed to Bel Hanson at events@iscb.org